Ed, you always a lot < beep >, but that’s okay, I enjoy reading your emails. :)
Anyhow, per your suggestion request:
1- Check that LL1 and LL2 are patched at the switch level.
2- if patched, plug your laptop directly into the switch, w an Ethernet cable that you 99% sure that is good, Dutch the 1%), to make sure the ports are not turn off. In a hacker space and for “security” I wouldn’t be surprised and non-used ports be turned off.
That’s for now!
Daniel
On Monday, June 17, 2019, Ed Biow <biow@riseup.net> wrote:
Hey fiends, I needed to take a bath anyway, so I overcame my revulsion
and upgraded the iMac from 4GB to 12 GB of memory. as you can see from
the attached screenshot. I also connected the big monitor to the right,
I don't know if it was disconnected for a specific reason.
It looks like the ethernet cable is disconnected, so the iMuck was using
wifi. Anka came in and informed me that the ethernet is not working for
the Hackintush, either, and has been down for a week or so. I screwed
around with the DHCP settings in OSX, but no luck. So I rebooted to
Linux on the Hackentosh and confirmed that the ethernet is not working
there, either. Someone added a PCI-E network adapter to the Hack, so I
tried jacking into the onboard ethernet, no joy. And I found a piece of
ethernet cable lying on the ground, so I used to to directly jack in to
each of the 2 ethernet ports that come in from the hall directly,
squatissimo. So I connected the random bit of ethernet to the iMac and
each of the ethernet jacks coming into the office, but as soon as I
turned off the wifi I lost connectivity.
So it appears that LL1 & LL2 ethernet jacks are no long connected to the
server above the sudoroom. The ethernet was working in the LL orifice a
couple of weeks ago when I hooked up the new monitor to the Hackentosh
and replaced funky M.2 SSD with a new Linux SSD. Possibly something
didn't get hooked up after the Omni router died from from heat stroke &
got replaced on or about June 9th. I traced the white LL1 & LL2 cables
back up to the sudoroom server farm, but then got lost in the hell-broth
of cables, and my "brain" exploded, so fixing this issue is above my
pay-grade.
So, I scavenged a USB wifi dongle off of one of the GCEA boxes in the
hall (that didn't have a mouse, anyway), so the Linux and Windows 10
sides of the Hackentosh now have internet, but with O$X with its
wonderful tradition of "Think Different" refuses to recognize the cheesy
Edimax EW-7811Un wifi dongle.
Anyone have any suggestions to get the ethernet working again?
Steamy puddles of affection,
Einstein & Ed